How high is the blue-mountain peak

[Reggae-Fan]

in comparison to Mexico city? I remember going on a camp up there must have been about 20 years ago (when I was about 11/12) as a boy scout.. from waht i can recall it was very chilly up there and yes, we regularly got nose bleeds, and tired easily.

Looks like we have a candidate for an altitude training base right here in Jamaica.

[Assasin]

It look you want the man dem fi train inna coffee fields?

[Hortical]

I hiked there bout 5 years ago, and it is over 7,000 feet above sea level. One thing for sure, you must be in good health to take the trek to the top. Most people hike to the top, and sleep overnight, then get up at the crack of dawn to the sun rising. Not sure it is logistically possible to set up a training camp in the blue mountains.

[Bricktop]

We trained in the Blue Mountains for 2 months before our U-17 tournament in Mexico City.

[Gamma]

den how di army have training base up in newcastle?

[Mosiah]

Newcastle and Blue Mountain Peak are two different things completely!

Newcastle is about 4,000 ft up.

[Mosiah]

What were you training for, Brickie?

All I know about Newcastle is di place steep nuh cla.at! A bare step! I guess a football team could train up there, but there might not be much ballwork, just running hills.

Time now wi stop talking about beating this altitude thing. The first thing we need to do is play good football. Let's cross that bridge first.

[Reggae-Fan]

And i'have witnessed at least one game where we went to the Azteca and played good football. Or tried to. I remeber one game where we came away with a 2-1 defeat...Boyd I think scored the goal.

[Mosiah]

well, we need more of those.

[Assasin]

As mi say a mussi inna coffee field them a go train. From Buff Bay to right back to NewCastle, not one sensible field fi do nothing. Them have field inna Bangor Ridge inna a grave yard. When you hit the ball it bounce offa grave etc. Them have another one up inna Portland up inna the mountain when Bowler a come umpire have fi say "Man a come" because the runup to the wicket too steep.

[Me]

Played good football in Azteca? We did not play good football in that 2-1 game. We were garbage and facing a team 10 times better than we were.
Donald Stewart was a disaster and Garth Peterkin came into the game and was also below the standard.

Boyd's goal was out of nowhere.

[Bricktop]

Yes it was running not ballwork.

[Bricktop]

Not ball training, fitness training to get acclimatised to the altitude.

[Tilla]

Time now wi stop talking about beating this altitude thing. The first thing we need to do is play good football. Let's cross that bridge first.

Same thing I am saying too. If you compare Mexico vs Canada and Mexixco Vs Jamaica games at the Azteca both teams played there recently, you will see that Canada played well against the Mexicans, desipte the loss. Our game now was. . .to borrow a word from no Mercy "nonexistent".

Yes, we focus first on playing food football and the altitude thing will take care of itself.

[Tilla]

We trained in the Blue Mountains for 2 months before our U-17 tournament in Mexico City.

Am I hearing you say you were on the national under-12 team BT? What year was that?